one of america s most influential and important for better or ill treasury secretaries because he got a really bad start to the job. he stumbled out of the gate. he gave press conference that s were panned. he was not particularly close to barack obama. yet he managed to have by all accounts across the spectrum, tremendous influence and as someone who worked with him and sat across tables with him, neil, how did he pull that off? i think he has a sense of president obama. and i think they connected on a personal level. and he somehow earned the president s trust. but i think when you look at what he s done, it is a remarkable thing. most of the policies that he engineers or did in response to financial crisis were failed policies. and i think, you know, part of his legacy going to be what we re going to have to deal with in the coming years as a result of the failed policies. it s a mystery to me. everything he touched really didn t go the right direction. you disagree strongly?
republican party do you really think is resonating with americans right now? well, at this point if you re a republican-leaning voter the only thing that is really resonating is the anti-obama message. that works for a little while. but i m surprised that there doesn t seem to be any republican candidate, nor even the president of the united states who has given a big picture, this is where i want to take the country, kind of very inspiring speech. i can understand the knit picking about earmarks but that is not going to solve our problems. jenna: why do you think we haven t seen that yet? it s a mystery to me. what is key to running a big national campaign is you have to be able to run on your record, that is what these people are doing, but you have to have hired the best people, have a great organization, but the third key component is to have a strong, positive agenda that you tell american people about over and over and over again. we don t you couldn t tell me right now, wh
we re seeing here in the race. what message coming from the republican party do you really think is resonating with americans right now? well, at this point if you re a republican-leaning voter the only thing that is really resonating is the anti-obama message. that works for a little while. but i m surprised that there doesn t seem to be any republican candidate, nor even the president of the united states who has given a big picture, this is where i want to take the country, kind of very inspiring speech. i can understand the knit picking about earmarks but that is not going to solve our problems. jenna: why do you think we haven t seen that yet? it s a mystery to me. what is key to running a big national campaign is you have to be able to run on your record, that is what these people are doing, but you have to have hired the best people, have a great organization, but the third key component is to have a strong, positive agenda that you tell american people about over and over a
confronted about whether he had read the arizona immigration law that he was highly critical of and suing over, and here s that exchange: and i understand that you may file a lawsuit against the law. it seems to me the administration ought to be enforcing border security and immigration laws and not challenge them. and that the administration is on the wrong side of the american people. have you read the arizona law? i have not had i ve glanced at it. i have not read it. it s ten pages. megyn: that has people asking how can president obama come out and say this man still has his full confidence? it s a mystery to me. i never supported his nomination. megyn: really? i think he s a good lawyer but he s a terrible politician and the attorney general of the united states is a political job, there s no question about it. you have to interface with congress, you have to be a spokesman to the american people, you have to inspire confidence. eric holder, whatever his skills are, is
on. you can t have this. absolutely. bill: i would love to know and union, as far as i know, has never issued a statement about what you found out. never said anything publicly about it, correct? well, they did issue a statement after the first story saying that they did not cob don t the use condone the use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace. bill: was that a statement. that s all we got. bill: that s all i m say here s a statement. here is what we are going to do to stop it here a memo we went sent out to all our members. not we don t condone it doesn t seem they are proactive in this regard. i will give you the last word. well, yeah. it s a mystery to me. they don t communicate with me. the other guys got fired. chrysler, i know, doesn t like this. bill: no, they don t like it. what do you mean they don t like it? all right mr. wolchek i am a member of a union. so am i. bill: a lot of our union members are stoned pretty much